Legal Opinion
Richard Emery v. Peter Bradford Holmes
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 29, 1987No. 86-1486PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.
Richard Emery filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against several police officers for damages resulting from their seizure of his Peugeot automobile during a search of his neighbor’s property. The police officers who executed an arrest warrant for Emery’s neighbor and obtained a search warrant for the neighbor’s property recognized Emery’s car as the same car identified in a search warrant for its previous owner’s property. The earlier search warrant had expired by its own terms five months earlier. The officers seized the car under the incorrect…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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3Cited by37 opinions
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